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2009-07-07 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by ryuge 2009-07-07 11:02|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Whoever said a picture was worth a thousand words was correct, that picture says it all about Zero, his policies, and his followers.

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-07-07 14:29|| 2009-07-07 14:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Raplph Peters get it. Not only did Comrade Obama give away the farm but locks the USA into a position of inferiority. This agreement does nothing about the hundreds of Russian aircraft and short range missiles (and hundreds of Chinese IRBMs) that form a large part of their nuclear strike capability. A force that puts into range most of their likely targets (China, Europe, Iran, Pakistan) saving all of their ICBM and SLBM assets for use against the USA. While US nuclear forces must be split amongst all possible targets.

He agreed to trim our nuclear-warhead arsenal by one-third and -- even more dangerously -- to cut the systems that deliver the nuclear payloads. In fact, the Russians don't care much about our warhead numbers (which will be chopped to a figure "between 1,500 and 1,675"). What they really wanted -- and got -- was a US cave-in regarding limits on our nuclear-capable bombers, submarines and missiles that could leave us with as few as 500 such systems

The Russians can't afford to maintain their current nuclear triad while ours are a small part of the budget. Their large land based based ICBMs are coming to end of life. Even if they were in good shape, the Russians won't have time to launch before a Chinese first strike wipes out the missile fields thanks to tech transfer and espionage courtesy of Bill and Hillary Clinton and a few well placed Chinese campaign contributions. Why do you think the the Soviets were so eager to eliminate IRBMs once the US began deploying Pershing 2 to Europe? To have any chance at survival, Russian ICBM must be mobile and they are very expensive and reliability is uncertain. And real time space based surveillance is improving all the time.

The Russians SLBMs are in even worse shape and they can't afford more than a few new boomers, even if they could get them working. The Russians are still living off their decrepit cold war bomber force and can't even think about designing and building new ones.

Moscow longs for the world to view Russia and the United States as equals again

Why would Americans treat dictatorships as equals, let alone allow to lock in a position of nuclear superiority? Esp one with 140 million and rapidly declining population whose GDP equals Spain's. The Russians are in real deep shit and Comrade Obama just volunteered America to bail out his soulmates.

Posted by ed 2009-07-07 15:49|| 2009-07-07 15:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Yalta II. Lucky us, Russia's weaker than Stalin's Soviet Union, and we're bigger than FDR's America.

For now.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-07-07 15:51|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-07-07 15:51|| Front Page Top

#4 01.20.09 - A date which will live in infamy.

Posted by SteveS 2009-07-07 16:13|| 2009-07-07 16:13|| Front Page Top

#5 My take away was indeed Medvedev(Putin) was after parity between our warheads and their own. Also what struck me as interesting was how even as Medvedev was getting what he was after, he managed to look angry and put out up there on the podium while Obama was speaking. Obama in typical fashion looked uncomfortable on the podium and almost apologetic at times. Hes apologetic for our strength--what an imbecile.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-07-07 18:31|| 2009-07-07 18:31|| Front Page Top

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